If you look at the phrase between <a> and </a>, you'll see it is "61W59."
If you paste that phrase into the input box on the dell website you will be able to retrieve some
additional information about "61W59." The piece of information I am most interested in is under
"Description." This information tells me the remaining time until the warranty expires. As you can see,
the warranty for this particular computer expired back in 1997.

Now onto what I want to do. I want to automate this process by using a PHP script that goes out to
Dell's website, retrieves the warranty information I want about a particular service tag, then displays the
warranty information on my webpage or writes it to a database if I choose to do so. The problem is
I have no idea how to design such a script. I just know that I want the script to be simple and efficient.

I have all the service tags on hand. It would be super if the PHP script could read the service tags
from a separate text file.

Thank you for your time,

*Nick*

chump2877

08-25-2006, 01:52 AM

Try this to submit the remote form with a PHP script and retrieve the results: http://www.zend.com/zend/spotlight/mimocsumissions.php